The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1887-09-13
EDITORIAL POSTSCRIPT.

SINCE MEMPHIS was made taxing district
i'll 1850 1t has paid Off nearly S4,000,000 Of its
debt. About S3000,000 is yet TO be paid,
Now THEY SAY Pasteur is fraud, but the
fact remains that he has saved scores Of human
beings from the horrible death OF hydrophobia.
ZoLAs WORKS have been suppressed in
Russia. They turn the civilized stomach
everywhere except in France and the United
States.
THE DEAR DUKE of Marlborough is still The
rage at Newport. The duke will carry a fine
lot of American gossip when lie returns to the
brothels of London
AGE CONSIDERED. NCNETLLY. of Saco.
Maine, goes TO the head Of the defaulters list
He was only nineteen, and lie scooped over a
quarter of a million.
BLAINE HAS DRAWN first blood for the next
republican nomination. Two delegates to the
national convention We're chosen i'll Lacka-
wanna county, Pa, the other day, and We're
instructed for Blaine.
MIssoURIANs ARE TIE hardest people in the
world to satisfy. A Missouri farmer found an
egg the other day with a clock face and the
\ hours clearly marked on it. Now he is kick
ing because it don't keep time.
COLORADO PEOPLE COMPLAIN that the cow
boys are worse savages than Colorow and his
band. They are not half SO much afraid of the
| Indians as they are the white desperadoes. The
government ought to turn the rascals out
JAY GOULD is getting so hard up that he
proposes TO raise the elevated railroad fare
from five to ten cents after certain hours. 1t
| is a sublime spectacle, as some one has remark
ed before, to see good man struggling with
adversely.
The GALVESTON News does not think the
| recent wheat corner gives cause for alarm, be-
| cause, though the gamblers who tried to make
the corner are out SS,O0000O, not a single grain
of wheat was lost That IS a comforting
thought.
| SENATOR RIpDLEBERGER bought all the
| liquor privileges for the Shenandoah county
! fair for 500 and then refused to let drop OF
/ intoxicating liquors be sold ON the grounds.
! The senator is thought to be doing penance for
| his recent naughtineSs.
RoDERcK RANDOM BUTLER, congressman
/ from the first Tennessee district, is accused of
| selling his influence in the pending prohibition
/ fight in Tennessee for $500. When Butler
/ was in congress several years ago he was ac-
4 cused of selling West Point cadetship.
IL REVIEWING HIS defeat at the Allentown
convention, Editor Smgerly says: "The
/ Record, however is NOT altogether dis
/ couraged." This is natural. MI Randall has
/ knocked the Record Ont SO often that there is
no reason why another dIulhiug should have
/ any decided effect Ca IT,.
| NE have hitherto supposed that an Ameu-
/ can base ball player was the lest paid man iu
1 the world, but il seems that we wtremistaAcu.
! Y Spanish bull fighter has been offered $4,000
/ 10 give four performances IN tie City of Mex
I leo. The only difficulty in the modern bull
/ fights is TO catch the bull after he is turned
I into the ring.
ONLY NINETEEN SUITS have yet been fled
against the Toledo, Peoria and Weston rail-
road, on account of the Chatsworth horror.
! These aggregate claims for $4,000 and as
there will be over n bundled suits more the
| road may be lucky to escape with the payment
! Of a round million. That sounds heavy. but
the officers Of the road ought 70 thank their
| stars that they are not IL iail.